B 255-2 Mahābhārata (Śāntiparvan)

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 255/2
Title: Mahābhārata
Dimensions: 22.5 x 10 cm x 297 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Devanagari; Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Mahābhārata
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/965
Remarks: Śāntiparvan, Mokṣadharma

Reel No. B 255/2

Inventory No. 31389

Title Mahābhārata (Śāntiparvan)

Remarks

Author attributed to Vyāsa

Subject Mahābhārata

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari, Devanagari

Material paper

State complete

Size 22.5 x 10.0 cm

Binding Hole(s)

Folios 297

Lines per Page 10–11

Foliation figures on the verso; in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation mokṣa. also mokṣadharmma. and in the lower right-hand margin

Scribe

Date of Copying

Place of Copying

King

Donor

Owner/Deliverer

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/965

Manuscript Features

• Fols. 1–20 are written in Newari script and rests of folios are written in Devanagari.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya ||

nārāyaṇaṃ namaskṛtyaṃ(!) naraṃ caiva narottamaṃ ||

devī(!) sarasvatīñ caiva tato jayam udīrayet || ||

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca ||

dharmmāḥ pitāmahenoktā rājadharmmāśritāḥ śutāḥ(!) |

dharmm ātrāminā (!) śreṣṭhaṃ vakum(!) arhati(!) pārthiva || ||

bhīṣma uvāca ||

sarvatrāvahito dharmmaḥ svarga(!) pratya(!) ca yatphalaṃ ||

bahur(!)dvārasya dharmmasya nehāsti viphalā kriyā | (fol. 1v1–3)

End

tad eṣa paramo dharmmo, yan māṃ pṛcchasi bhārata ||

āsīd vīro hy anākāṃkṣī, dharmmātmakaraṇe nṛpa ||

sa ca kila kṛtaniścayo dvijātir,

bbhujagapatiṃ pratidiśātmakṛtyaṃ ||

yamaniyamasamāhito balāntaṃ,

parigaṇitoʼñchasi tā(!) śataṃ praviṣṭhaḥ || (fol. 297v5–7)

Colophon

iti śrīmahābhārate śatasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ vaiyāsikyāṃ śāntiparvvaṇi uñchavṛtyupākhyānaṃ samāptam || ❁ || samāpto ʼyaṃ mokṣadharmma iti || śubha[m] || (fol. 297v7–8)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 255/2

Date of Filming 29-03-1972

Exposures 300

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by BK/RK

Date 14-02-2012

Bibliography